Two good reasons to watch where you’re walking in the desert at night 🕸️🐍

Meet the kowari: a pint-sized predator on the fast track to extinction theconversation.com/meet-the-kowar… via The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand

Australia is pretty much one giant sand pit. No surprise then that lots of critters have shovel-like adaptations to dig out a living beneath the soil surface. Take for instance the narrow-banded shovel-nosed snake (Brachyurophis fasciolatus) which can teleport into soil with ease

Kath Tuft and the small team at Arid Recovery on the front line of climate change , leading the way for threatened species conservation in a hotter and drier arid Australia

#climateadapt23
Katherine Tuft Arid Recovery Climate Systems Hub

Welcome, Arid Recovery. ALCA members are united by a vision of a future where nature thrives Australia wide, and through ongoing membership expansion we seek to more fully represent the diversity of private land conservation in Australia.

This week Arid Recovery: Bladder saltbush in fruit after winter rain!!

Ducks in the desert: transient oases in a sunburnt country - new bog by our ecologist ⁦Genevieve Hayes⁩ aridrecovery.org.au/ducks-in-the-d…

Phenomenal week demonstrating for Faculty of Sciences, Engineering and Technology second year ecology students Arid Recovery - overwhelming consensus of the most they’ve ever learnt at uni.

Thanks again to Arid for hosting such a great camp to kick start these young ecologists careers! 🦎🐭🪶

Online Trap Alert Forum - 4th April 10:30 AEST. Hear from people using trap alerts to manage #feralcats & monitor wildlife & a discussion on how you might use them in your own projects. For more info email: [email protected] to register: eventbrite.com.au/e/trap-alert-s….

Top people helping out on the survey this year, as always. 26 years of data now from pitfall trapping small reptiles & mammals at ⁦Arid Recovery⁩

Young reptiles out in force this year, breeding off good seasons. This is a baby netted dragon (Ctenophorus nuchalis) ⁦Arid Recovery⁩

This inappropriate goanna shat on the bench and everted his hemipenes in front of everybody. On #InternationalWomen ’sDay no less! Pitfall trapping @ ⁦Arid Recovery⁩

Those cheeks! 😘
Plains mouse during annual pitfall trapping ⁦Arid Recovery⁩
Bumper year for the threatened species in the cat-free reserve after good seasons

Dozens of threatened Australian species are back from the brink, but many are reliant on fenced-off safe havens.

💬 'We should not rely on [safe havens] to take species off the threatened list,' write @katherinemoseby (@UNSW) + John Read (@UniofAdelaide). bit.ly/41yFf2z

New podcast! BiologySociety_SA interviews Arid Recovery Chief Executive Katherine Tuft on desert ecosystems & threatened species… and what it takes to get hard-won wins in conservation.

podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/bss…

Still a long road to real recovery for Australia’s threatened species. Safe havens are great, but just a stop-gap. Important to recognise in the debate about de-listing species. Arid Recovery co-founders Katherine Moseby & John Read in The Conversation - Australia + New Zealand
theconversation.com/amp/threatened…

Good to have you here Pat 🙂

Scientists call for stronger laws to keep pet cats contained across the country — #SarahLegge James Trezise WA Feral Cat Working Group #WAFeralCat23
Councils ramp up pressure on state governments to overhaul Australian cat laws abc.net.au/news/2023-02-1…
#FeralCats @InvasiveSpecies

Hugh McGregor talks about the ideal meal for a #feralcat being about 200g, which is half a quoll, six hopping mice or 1/4 of a bilby. at Arid Recovery they were hunting along outside the predator proof fence 'cat food farm' #WAFeralCat23

Dead plants are essential for productivity in the arid zone. In the 'brown food web' nutrients cycle from dead plants➡️termites ➡️small predators like geckoes. Overgrazing by kangaroos disrupts the web.

Cosmos Imma Perfetto Graeme Finlayson

cosmosmagazine.com/nature/overgra…